Bible History and Logic

Cold-Case Christianity

Don’t Forget! Your Credo is Due Today! Please submit it (either by Homework Drop or email) by no later than 11:59pm. If it is late, unless you have a tremendous excuse, it will be counted as a zero. As we end the school year and you are entering high school,…

Truth in Love

Don’t Forget! Your Credo is Due Tomorrow! Feel free to submit it early (either by Homework Drop or email), but it will be due on Friday no later than 11:59pm. If it is late, unless you have a tremendous excuse, it will be counted as a zero. As we end…

Credo Helps Call

You don’t have to join this call, but I will be on Zoom to provide help to anyone working on their Credo. Ask me questions, get feedback, etc. Join Optional Zoom at 11:15am [zoom_api_link meeting_id=”96304576001″ link_only=”no”]

Riddles

Don’t Forget! Your Credo Paper is due on Friday! If you are done with it, go ahead and turn it in through Homework drop or email. I will not accept papers submitted after 11:59pm on Friday 5/15. So please make sure that you are working on it this week. I…

Four Views

As we saw earlier this week, we as Christians don’t get the main portion of our beliefs about the second coming of Christ from that sometimes cryptic book at the back of our Bibles. Rather, we allow the whole counsel of God’s word to teach us and we learned from…

Jesus on the Second Coming

Like I said yesterday, there are a lot of people who get their picture of what is going to happen at Jesus’ second coming from the somewhat cryptic book at the end of our Bibles. However, Jesus spoke on numerous occasions about his second coming and I think we should…

Revelation

When the end times is mentioned, many people immediately want to turn in their Bibles to the Book of Revelation. However, this is a mistake. To see the book of Revelation as some sort of cryptic map of future events is to miss its importance to its original audience. The…

The Second Coming

[responsivevoice_button] To end this school year, we will look at our final of the 11 foundational doctrines, the Second Coming. This is a topic that usually elicits one of two responses. You have those that fit into one of the well-defined camps (we will talk about those more this week)…

Work on Credo

Only two weeks left to complete your Credo Project. To be on track, you should be over halfway done at this point. Don’t forget that you need to have at least two supporting scripture references for each section to get full credit. If you are looking for help, I would…

Purpose of the Church

Open the Student Guide and fill in the blanks as you watch the lesson. Looking at the seven characteristics of the koinonia fellowship, which of these is most important to you personally? Leave your comments below.

Clouds Heaven Sky Powerful God

Afterlife: Heaven – Part 2

If you need more time to finish the video and the student guide, please use part of today’s class to do that. Download the student guide here. Please note the Quiz at the bottom of this page. You may use your study guides from this week to complete it. No…

Clouds Atmosphere Great Beautiful

Afterlife: Heaven

Please download the student guide found here. Fill in the blanks as you watch the video below. Note: There is a list of answers to the fill in the blanks on the last page of the PDF. Today, I would like you to put your answer to Discussion Question 3,…

Fire Flames Heat Night Hot

Afterlife: Hell – Part 2

If you were unable to get through the video yesterday, then please take today’s class to complete the study guide. Download the student guide here. Fill in the blanks as you watch the video below. Please note: There is a different discussion question for the comment today. Note: There is…

Fire Flames Heat Night Hot

The Afterlife: Hell

Please download the student guide found here. Fill in the blanks as you watch the video below. Note: There is a list of answers to the fill in the blanks on the last page of the PDF. If you run out of time during this class period, don’t worry, I’ll…

Credo Project

With four weeks left of school, I have one final project that I want you to complete. As we have been looking at Christian theology for the last few months and as we are coming to an end, I want you to write your own personal theology. I call this…

Evil is Defeated

<== Previous Lesson Don’t forget to complete your problem of evil fictional conversations and submit them to homework drop or send them to my email. We’ve discussed some heavy topics this week and I want to leave you on a positive note. When we talk about the problem of evil,…

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Spiritual Warfare

<== Previous Lesson Some of you may have rolled your eyes yesterday as we were talking about spiritual beings. After all, we live in an age of particle accelerators, microchips, and organ transplants. Aren’t the Devil and demons just medieval superstitions created to scare naughty children and illiterate peasants? This…

Angels, Demons, and Satan

<== Previous Lesson I want you to throw out any pictures that you have in your head of angels, demons, and Satan. These popular images are based on big misunderstandings for the most part. You will need to learn some new words that you don’t use very often, and you…

Problem of Evil Discussion

<== Previous Lesson Zoom call meeting to discuss your project this week. Attendance is expected for everyone. The remainder of the class time should be spent working on your fictional conversation. [zoom_api_link meeting_id=”938372783″ link_only=”no”] Next Lesson ==>

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Problem of Evil

<== Previous Lesson [responsivevoice_button] Back when we were talking about Augustine’s City of God, we tackled the problem of evil. This is a difficult philosophical argument that may have roots all the way back to around the year 300 BC. The Greek philosopher Epicurus summed up the argument in the…